And that done he sent for all the thryfty commoners within the sayd cytie, and theym exortyd in lyke maner, whiche for the more partye granted to hym the wages of halfe a man for a yere, the whiche amounted to iiijli.
Again, an alderman who had served as mayor received an allowance of 100 shillings for fur; an alderman who had not passed the chair was entitled to no more than 5 marks, whilst commoners received only half that sum.
It appears that at this election three aldermen were nominated for the mayor and aldermen to elect two, and four commoners were nominated for the mayor and aldermen to elect two.
And each of the saidCommoners had with him in the same Tower 2 men at arms to wait upon him.
In course of time thecommoners came to be elected by the Common Council, but the aldermen still kept a hold on the elections by nominating certain individuals of whom the citizens were to make their choice.
One alderman and the Recorder were nominated by the Court of Aldermen and their nomination was subsequently confirmed by the Common Council in the Guildhall; whilst two commoners were nominated by the commonalty attending at the Husting.
Lord Cookham, do you think we can get hold of sixteen commoners between us?
Then by hook or crook, probably crook, we'll entice in sixteen mere commoners to be the pawns.
The number of commoners who sat in the Estates was never more than one hundred and fifty-six.
A jury was chosen, amongst the members of which were the Marquis of Douglas, the Earl of Mar, the Earl of Lauderdale, and other peers, and of commoners Sir John Clerk of Pennycuik and Sir John Dalmahoy of that Ilk.
Upon the whole, I am disposed to regard this order of Gentlemen Commoners as a standing temptation held out by authority to expensive habits, and a very unbecoming proclamation of honor paid to the aristocracy of wealth.
As a matter of fact, I believe it to be true that Gentlemen Commoners spend more by a third, or a half, than any equal number of Commoners, taken without selection.
These commoners are shut out of their hall and their signatures are attached to their oath in a tennis court.
This act of thecommoners is the beginning of the French Revolution.
The Champion Commoners were, of course, a much larger multitude.
Footnote: In Leach's fly-sheet the exact number of Champion Commoners given is 397.
With this answer the Commoners left Newcastle on Sunday, Aug.
The Marquis de Brize, with two assistant masters of ceremonies, now began to assign the commoners to their seats, in accordance with the situation of the districts which they represented.
Many of the friends of the duke retained their places or accepted others; but several noblemen and commoners of distinction before the end of the year ranged themselves in the ranks of opposition.
Prosperous commoners could easily obtain exemption orders for their dogs; but a large sum of money was demanded from him, although he had none, for the right to keep his only little friend.
Possibly the commoners who met him in daily intercourse had their books completed and stored away safely in their barns, and he was certainly as learned as any of them.
Peter was always in demand by the commoners about the time of the drift.
He can come down if he likes, and you can give him a pick and tell him to mine for himself until the commoners catch him," said Pendoggat pleasantly.
There was plenty of it for every one, but, as the commoners would have argued, that was not the point.
All the commoners cheated the Duchy of Cornwall, while they loyally cheered the name of the Duke.
The commoners still believe that good luck will attend the man who shall see the rising sun reflected on the rock-basin of Bellivor.
They reached the cave, and Brightly produced all his possessions with pride, explaining to his housekeeper that a fire must not be lighted until after dark lest the commoners should see the smoke.
Little difficulties like that compelled him to look the other way whencommoners set the law aside.
The proper balance between superior classes and commoners is what we call 'ordinance.
If superiors and commoners confuse degree, how can the state go on?
Meeting at the Fountain tavern of above two hundred commonersand thirty-five Lords.
By "New Commoners" is meant those who have been newly made ordinary commoners by emancipation.
Then they prepared an act for regulating the election of the sixteen peers and forty-five commoners to represent Scotland in the British parliament.
The Scottish peers andcommoners that sat in the British parliament were divided into two factions.
To this protest nineteen peers and forty-six commoners adhered.
The city subscribed a considerable sum for that purpose; and a committee of aldermen and commoners was appointed to attend at Guildhall, to receive and apply the subscriptions.
Fellow commoners pay seven shillings and sixpence a week for board, pensioners five shillings, and members of the nobility ten shillings.
And if the doctrine, adopted by the Lords, were to be carried to its just consequences, all impeachment of commoners must be at an end; for no distinction is taken in the above declaration as to Bereford between treason and misdemeanour.
At the beginning of the winter of 1643 the king took the remarkable step of summoning the peers and commoners of his party to meet in parliament at Oxford.
On a given day the commoners come out, the richer ones with a plough or a cart and the poorer ones single-handed, and no attempt is made to discriminate one's share in the work.
Switzerland; and everywhere the commoners associate for all sorts of work.
Instances of commoners themselves dividing their lands were rare,(13) while everywhere the States coerced them to enforce the division, or simply favoured the private appropriation of their lands.
You artists call me a commoner, and commoners feel tempted to arrest me .
With the nobility and with the richest commoners marriage is still greatly a matter of contract, and is arranged without much reference to the principals, though it is now scarcely probable in any case that they have not seen each other.
These gifts are still exchanged not only by nobles, but by all commoners according to their means, and are sometimes a source of very profuse outlay.
The moor was a common, and the whole of the commoners joined in granting a lease to the tenant of the shooting.
What tho', like commoners of air, We wander out we know not where, But either house or hall?
In 1621 the Commoners entered in their journal a "Great Protestation" against the king's interference with their free right to discuss the affairs of the realm.
For some time after 1295 the clergy, nobility, and commoners [Footnote: I.
For Spain they were patriotic to the core: priests and nobles made common cause withcommoners and peasants, and all agreed that they would not brook foreign interference with their domestic concerns.
The monarchs had struggled valiantly against the disruptive tendencies of feudalism; they had been aided by the commoners or middle class; and the proof of their success was their comparative freedom from political checks.
The commoners naturally drew the deduction from the royal concession that they were to exercise paramount political influence in the Estates- General of 1789.
He might overwhelm the rebellious commonersby force of arms.
Then the commoners precipitated a veritable revolution.
If any say they were made by the Commoners, it is answered, They were not made by the Commoners as the Commoners of a Free Commonwealth are to make Laws.
And now you have the Power of the Land in your hand, you must do one of these two things: First, either set the Land free to the Oppressed Commoners who assisted you .
But have not the Commoners cast out the King, and broken the band of that Conquest?
And so long as the promoting of the King's will and prerogative was to be in the eye of the Law Makers, the oppressed Commoners could never enjoy Commonwealth's Freedom thereby.
For when Laws were made and Parliaments broke up, the poor oppressed Commoners had no relief; the power of Lords of Manors, withholding the free use of the Common-land from them, remained still.
And if by Conquest he calls the Earth his and not mine, it must be either by the conquest of the King over the Commoners or by the conquest of the Commoners over the King.
What greater injury could be done to the Commoners of England than to sell away their Land so hastily, before the people knew where they were, or what Freedom they had got by such cost and bloodshed as they were at?
